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The facts on this tree are astounding. This is a hybrid oak from Mossy Oak Nativ Nurseries.
It was planted as a 18 inch seedling in late fall 2011. In other words, this is it's first growing season in the ground, and it's been less than two years since the acorn that produced it dropped from the mama tree.
It emerged from the green tree tube early this summer. That green tree tube is 4 feet tall - so if the tree had stopped growing and decided to call it quits for the season at that point, the rate of growth would still have been impressive bordering on amazing.
But as you can see, it didn't stop - it was just getting started! Deer started browsing the tip after it emerged from the 4 foot Tree Tube, so the grower added a 2 foot tall "tree tube extender" to provide another 2ft of deer browse protection.
Within a month the tree had emerged from the top of the tree tube extender, meaning it was by then 6 feet tall and had grown 4.5 feet this season. And it still wasn't done.
Since then this tree - this supposedly slow growing oak tree - has grown another 2.5 feet, putting its height at about 8.5 feet. For those of you keeping score at home, that's 7 feet of growth in a single growing season, starting as an 18 inch seedling.
Top-notch growing stock and state-of-the-art growing practices are the basis of results like this. But after seeing this you can't tell me that tree tubes aren't one of the most important developments in tree planting to come along, well, ever.
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